AI is Oil, Not God
Not Boring by Packy McCormick ● Covered by 75 sources
Tech leaders including Satya Nadella and Jensen Huang signed a letter supporting open-weight AI models, a move that aligns their commercial interests with consumer benefits by increasing competition and preventing duopolies at the model layer. The signatories span companies that either build open models or benefit from their proliferation, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, and others across the AI ecosystem. This creates a scenario where commoditizing AI as a tool rather than restricting it as a potentially dangerous entity allows more participants to compete and innovate.
Why it matters
AI is more of an economically useful commodity than a supremely intelligent being that will make humanity subservient. Several leaders in the AI industry have recently come out in support of open-weight models.